Form has become uneditable when near completion in Acrobat X Pro

I'm having a frustrating problem! I have created a PDF form and now that I'm almost complete with it, it won't allow me to finish the last few edits! I just get a screen like the one I pasted into this email. If I then Close form editing, it goes back to normal. I've restarted the computer and tried all of the ways I know how to start over and now i'm stumped. Any ideas??

Thought I'd let people know that after 5 hours with Adobe Support, they think it was because I created the PDF from a web page. You're supposed to be able to do that but evidently we're supposed to create the pdf, PRINT it to Adobe PDF, and then edit that form. It's not an elegant solution because it sets all html place holders like buttons in "print" so they cannot be erased. At that point you have to create new buttons bigger than the old ones to hide the old ones.
A frustrating day for me and for the tech who spent so much time with me. Now I have to go do another 3-5 worth of work to recreate it all. Bleah.

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